Even among Lin Haifeng's comrades, some people held the same view as Bourbron. They should make full use of their existing advantages, annihilate all maritime forces in the Indian Ocean as soon as possible, open up direct connections between the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean, completely reverse the decline of the Allies on the continental battlefield, and end this war that caused global disaster as soon as possible.

Of course this is not what Lin Haifeng pursues...

Because what Lin Haifeng hopes is to continue this war as much as possible for a period of time. In Lin Haifeng's own words, the longer the war is fought, the greater the benefits our Taiping Heavenly Kingdom government and people will benefit from it.

After repeated weighing the pros and cons, the five decision makers of the Supreme Command of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom finally reached a consensus:

In order to avoid the needless price paid by the Red Army and the Red Navy soldiers, we must not pursue too much shortening the current course of the war.

So, when Frederick Haines and Henry Kaipail, who had already gone to Mumbai, were worried about guarding against the arrival of the main force of the Red Navy in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, with Lin Haifeng's order, Luo Dagang's main force of the Red Navy's high seas fleet turned his finger to the South Indian Ocean.

On October 7, 1869, Frederick Haines and Henry Kepail sent to the Cape Colony. It was originally intended to attack Durban, which was stationed in the Taiping Tian** team. The Cape Fleet, composed of the Fourth Heavy Main Iron Armor, the First Guard Iron Armor and the Second Rapid Cruise Detachment, unfortunately became the prey of the main force of the Red Sea Fleet.

After several encirclement and annihilation battles, Luo Dagang completely eliminated the main force of the British Cape fleet at the cost of injuring the four ships. The Red Army, located in the Red Army Expeditionary Army, landed in the Durban Port.

While the loss of the Cape fleet made Frederick Haynes and Henry Caipeler feel more and more terrible danger to themselves.

In order to prevent the main force of the Red Navy of the Taiping Kingdom from returning to the north to find trouble for his own country, Frederick Haynes and Henry Kepailer after thinking about it for several days, Kepailer led his Indian Ocean Fleet to leave Mumbai quickly and joined the fleets of Spanish and Portuguese friendly forces in the Gulf of Aden. All preparations for a major maritime battle were made in advance.

But Frederick Haynes and Henry Kepailer made useless efforts again, because the Red Navy's high seas fleet did not turn around and fight back to the North Indian Ocean, but turned his face east.

In March 1870, Luo Dagang and his Red Navy High Seas Fleet suddenly appeared in Australia, which had been built by the British Empire, six independent colonial areas, including New South Wales, Tasmania, Western Australia, South Australia, Victoria and Queensland.

Along with the Red Navy's high seas fleet, there was also the Red 29th Army commanded by Lin Yuanxun in the Red Army Expeditionary Army sequence.

The British power in South Africa and Australia was completely eliminated.

While Lin Haifeng was planning this series of actions, he naturally would not completely ignore what Bourbron was most worried about, that was to reduce pressure on the commander of the French Asian fleet, Ruyori, who had become anxious in Kolkata all day long.

Of course, Lin Haifeng's action to relieve pressure on Luyori was not at sea, but from land.

After the sea obstacles were fully understood, Chen Zongyang, commander of the Allied South Asian Theater, did a more important thing, in addition to the free and easy clearance of the remnants of the Allied Powers entrenched on the Nanyang Islands, also did a more important thing, that is, at the invitation of the Siam Kingdom, sent the Red Sixth Army into Siam.

Later, the Red Sixth Army entered the Kingdom of Gongbang. At the same time, the order from the Allied Joint Fleet Command was that if you find it difficult to continue to station in Kolkata, you can transfer to the Siam and Annan Special Areas at any time.

However, Luyori did not transfer to Hong Kong.

One of the reasons is that Ruyori is still a warrior. Although Ruyori knows that after the main force of Kepail's Indian Ocean Fleet ran to Mumbai, his life would become even more sad. However, after all, the British Royal Navy, who was worried, had never wanted to attack him. If he ran away like this, it would be really a pity.

Secondly, with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Red Army entering Siam and moving to the tribute list, the Bay of Bengal has long become a good "safe haven". If an irresistible crisis really occurs, I will consider the detachment at that time. Wouldn't it be better?

As the situation of war develops, Ruyori, who is "silent" in Kolkata, is becoming less and less anxious. However, Chamberlain, the commander of the Straits Colony Legion, which is truly lonely on Singapore and Malaya Islands, and Mr. Ward, the governor of the Straits Colony, are so anxious that they get into the room every day.

You know, Frederick Haynes and Henry Kepaler ran to Mumbai for comfort, but those who stayed there were more than 10,000 officers and soldiers of the British Empire Straits Colony Corps, as well as many imperial expatriates, and so many people, without various supplies from outside, it was obvious that they could not survive for a long time.

So, if Ward and Chamberlain could help, Frederick Haynes and Henry Keppelle would be a heart disease together.

In the initial days, General Kaipail, who had been scared by the torpedoes from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Red Navy, was determined to kill him and would not approach the Straits colony half a step away. If you, Lord Haines, gets tired of your mouth, I just don't move.

But after nearly half a year, seeing that the Straits Colony was still intact, and the left-behind Chamberlain and Ward gave the ultimatum to surrender directly to the Taiping Heavenly People across the Strait without providing supplies, Kaipail had to harden his head and began the supply operation to the Straits Colony in fear.

The first tentative supply operation for the Straits Colony was very smooth. I did not dare to go deep into the Straits of Malacca. Instead, as soon as I approached Malaya, I quickly found a place to unload the supply fleet, safely providing a ship of daily necessities to the Straits Colony Legion.

But for the second time, Kaipail's supply operations against the Straits Colony were terrible.

As soon as three merchant ships filled with various military and civilian supplies approached the Strait of Malacca, two of them caught fire and exploded for unknown reasons and then sank to the bottom of the sea. The only thing that is worthy of Kaipail's gratitude was that the four warships participating in this escort operation strictly implemented his orders, not walking in front of the escort merchant ship, but just following the buttocks of the escort merchant ship from afar, and finally they were able to return intact.

The major losses suffered by the second supply operation did not make Haines feel relieved. The reason is very simple. Although the supply merchant ship lost two of them, there was still a merchant ship successfully unloaded and returned intact.

So, with Haynes' repeated insistence, similar supply actions continued.

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